I get Invalid file type while uploading swf

Hi all.
I get "Invalid file type" after uploading swf.
Can't understand why.
in the
/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/conectors/config.php
folowing part is in tuch with flash:

$Config['AllowedExtensions']['Flash']   = array('swf','flv') ;
$Config['DeniedExtensions']['Flash']   = array() ;
$Config['FileTypesPath']['Flash']      = $Config['UserFilesPath'] . 'flash/' ;
$Config['FileTypesAbsolutePath']['Flash']= ($Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] == '') ? '' : $Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'].'flash/' ;
$Config['QuickUploadPath']['Flash']      = $Config['UserFilesPath'] ;
$Config['QuickUploadAbsolutePath']['Flash']= $Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] ;

All ok, as you may see.
But i can't upload flash with FCKeditor flash upload plugin.
With uploading images all great.
Where problem may be?
Help please.

Sat, 02/09/2008 - 06:01

wzcocoon

Joined: 15/01/2008

Posts: 4

Re: I get Invalid file type while uploading swf

I have the same problem so if you find the solution can you let me know as well?

thanks

PS: according to what I have read it could be that it is some kind of limitation on the upload file size but I am not sure and I do not know how to fix it

Sat, 02/09/2008 - 06:19

wzcocoon

Joined: 15/01/2008

Posts: 4

Re: I get Invalid file type while uploading swf

I just made a test and it look like I got around it

the php.ini file had a limit to 8M of file site to upload I changed it to 16M and now I can upload my files.
I am not sure this is the best solution but it did work for me.

Sat, 02/09/2008 - 15:00

вopoн

Joined: 05/02/2008

Posts: 4

Re: I get Invalid file type while uploading swf

wzcocoon wrote:I just made a test and it look like I got around it

the php.ini file had a limit to 8M of file site to upload I changed it to 16M and now I can upload my files.
I am not sure this is the best solution but it did work for me.

Not in my case...
I can't upload 50kb swf, but freely upload 2Mb png...
Any suggestions?

Mon, 02/11/2008 - 15:37

irishc

Joined: 11/02/2008

Posts: 1

Re: I get Invalid file type while uploading swf

I am using V 2.4.1 (PHP over Apache) and there is a error in the upload.php functionality.

I could only upload files that were in the $Config['AllowedExtensions']['File'] array - not any of the subsequent Image, Flash or Media arrays.

Infact, after checking again, it appeared that the $_GET['Type'] value was not being passed whatsover and so it was defaulting to "File" as set in this line

$sType = isset( $_GET['Type'] ) ? $_GET['Type'] : 'File' ;

Solution... change the above line to the code below... which parses each "AllowedExtension" array to compare the file type against the file being uploaded and take the $sType value directly from the associated array which matches. Works fine for me and uploads everything.

$alltypes = array('File','Image','Flash','Media');

for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($alltypes); $i++) {
   if (in_array($sExtension, $Config['AllowedExtensions'][$alltypes[$i]]) ) {
      $sType = $alltypes[$i];
      break;
   }
}

Other changes I made were to overcome the CASE problem. The editor tries to upload to title case folders "Image", "File" etc, not "image", "file"... which is a pain for apache. I added stttolower() function on the code creating the filepath before upload, and the code which returns the filepath back to javascript to appear embedded into the page....

near top of file....

// Get the extension.
$sExtension = substr( $sFileName, ( strrpos($sFileName, '.') + 1 ) ) ;
$sExtension = strtolower( $sExtension ) ;

Near bottom of file...

if ( $Config['UseFileType'] )
         $sFileUrl = $Config["UserFilesPath"] . strtolower($sType) . '/' . $sFileName ;
      else
         $sFileUrl = $Config["UserFilesPath"] . $sFileName ;

Hope this helps someone!!